Science - Radiation

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at...

Radiation CHAP. INTRODUCTION I. THE NATURE OF RADIANT HEAT AND LIGHT II. GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF WAVES III. THE MEANING OF THE SPECTRUM IV. THE LAWS OF RADIATION V. FULL RADIATION VI. THE TRANSFORMATION OF ABSORBED RADIATION VII. PRESSURE OF RADIATION VIII. THE RELATION BETWEEN...

This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery. Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who struggled to understand it....

"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to physics for decades. Ranging from...

2013 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Georges Lakhovsky (1869-1942) was a Russian engineer, scientist, author and inventor. His controversial medical treatment invention, the Multiple Wave Oscillator, is described as having been used by...